Femslash fandom and the cultivation of white queer genealogies
Longing for histories, reading for futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21836772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Coccia (0000-0003-1812-9243, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transformative Works and Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1941-2258 • E-ISSN: 1941-2258 |
| Publisher | Transformative Works and Cultures (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3983/twc.2022.2225 |
| OpenAlex | W4221112686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The recent surge in fan activity around historical figures like Emily Dickinson and Anne Lister reveals an ongoing desire for and investment in cultivating queer histories as a way of addressing the harms of erasure. This popular recovery project, however, reproduces existing hierarchies insofar as it most commonly makes wealthy, white histories legible, leaving others unclaimed and unrecognized. Despite these current tendencies, I offer "too close reading" as a fan-inflected scholarly methodology that holds the possibility of helping readers better recognize less overt forms of queerness across media and in the archives
Aesthetics · Art · Fandom · Futures contract · Heteronormativity · Media studies · Political science · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Computer Science · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |